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🎬 DGA Awards, DOJ, and YouTube TV
Paul Thomas Anderson accepts a Directors Guild of America Feature Film Medallion for ‘One Battle After Another’ (Kevin Winter/Getty Images) 🏆 The DGA Awards crowned their winners Saturday night. Paul Thomas Anderson finally nabbed the top feature film prize for 'One Battle After Another,' after previous noms for 'There…
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📚 Streamers fed the romance beast, now it’s hungry
Heated Rivalry Book-to-screen deals for romance IP that couldn't find buyers a few years ago are now routinely hitting six and seven figures. Romance was dismissed as low-budget volume content, something to pad out a slate between the prestige stuff. Now top literary agents say it's the most in-demand adaptation category,…
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🏆 Netflix just won its first Grammy
Audrey Nuna, EJAE, and Rei Ami, the voices behind Huntr/x, at the Grammys yesterday. (Brianna Bryson/WireImage) The Grammys were Sunday night, and Netflix walked away with its first-ever win. 'Golden' from 'KPop Demon Hunters' took home best song written for visual media. It caps a run that's hard to overstate: the film…
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Last Looks: Zoey Deutch Joins 'The '99ers,' Lionsgate Greenlights 'Dirty Dancing' Sequel
The Dailies reports on the latest in development, greenlights, renewals, and cancellations. Dirty Dancing (Lionsgate) Film Development 🗒️ Imagine Entertainment is developing a film adaptation of Daniel Kraus’ WWI novel ‘Angel Down,’ with the author set to write the screenplay. (more) Zoey Deutch will star as U.S. Women’s…
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🎬 ‘Star Search,’ WBD drama, and FilmTok…
Star Search (Netflix) 📺 Netflix just launched real-time voting for its new live talent show. The streamer launched 'Star Search' this week, a live reboot of the '80s talent competition featuring real-time voting. While episodes air on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, viewers can rate performances 1-5 stars directly through the…
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🌄 One last dance in Park City…
(Photo by David Becker/Getty Images) The Sundance Film Festival opens tomorrow for its final Utah edition before relocating to Boulder, Colorado in 2027. This year's fest carries emotional weight—it's the first since founder Robert Redford's death in September, and staff will also honor longtime communications chief Tammie…
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🎬 Netflix, BBC, and microdramas…
🍿 Netflix wants to win the box office now. Somewhere, a theater owner just did a spit take. Co-CEO Ted Sarandos told the New York Times that if Netflix closes its $83B Warner Bros. acquisition, WB films will keep a 45-day theatrical window. Theater owners had feared Netflix would slash that to 17 days. Sarandos also tried…
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Last Looks: Hans Zimmer to Compose HBO’s ‘Harry Potter,’ Anne Hathaway to Star in Paramount+ Series
The Dailies reports on the latest in development, greenlights, renewals, and cancellations. Hans Zimmer Film Development 🗒️ Studiocanal’s ‘Elsinore’ added Billie Piper, Johnny Flynn, Joe Locke and more to its cast as the feature film began shooting in the UK. (more) Spike Fearn is set to star in Apple’s ‘Running,’ directed…